Silvia Arroyo camejo

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Silvia Arroyo Camejo (born January 3, 1986 in Berlin ) is a Spanish-German physicist and science author.

Life

Arroyo Camejo - daughter of a Spanish vascular surgeon and a German language teacher - attended the Canisius College in Berlin , a Jesuit grammar school in Berlin-Tiergarten, and graduated from high school in 2005 with advanced courses in physics and chemistry. She started writing a book on quantum physics at the age of seventeen . The book was published in 2006 by the science publisher Springer under the title Skurrile Quantenwelt . The author was awarded for outstanding achievements in physics in 2004 Student Award Berlin of the Physical Society of Berlin e. V. (PGzB) and in 2005 the book prize of the German Physical Society .

In addition to studying physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin , she worked as a student assistant at the Hahn Meitner Institute in Berlin in the Solar Energy Department . She completed her bachelor thesis in the field of experimental quantum optics in Oliver Benson's group "Nano-Optics" at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2009 she visited Vladan Vuletic's experimental atomic physics group at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms as a visiting student . From 2009 to 2012 she studied in the master’s program at the University of Vienna and since 2012 has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in the NanoBiophotonics department of Stefan Hell on her dissertation, which she completed in December 2015.

Quirky quantum world

Quirky Quantum World is her first book on quantum physics, published in 2006. At first it was only supposed to be a check for herself whether she had understood the many books on quantum physics that she had already started to read at the age of fourteen, but in the end it became a book of her own. She sought to bridge the gap between formula-free popular science literature and study literature, while not using advanced mathematics to make the book understandable for both students and laypeople.

The book explains various historically significant experiments in quantum mechanics such as the double slit experiment and the photoelectric effect and illustrates the fundamentality of the wave-particle dualism in quantum mechanics. In addition, modern experiments and the resulting physical conceptions of the world are discussed, such as the question of the existence of hidden variables and the completeness of the quantum mechanical description. Furthermore, advanced theories such as quantum gravity are discussed at the end of the book .

Bizarre Quantum World was originally published by Springer Verlag and was on the Spiegel bestseller list for non-fiction books for several weeks. Translations into Italian, Greek, Vietnamese and Japanese followed in 2008.

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  1. ↑ Spiegel bestseller list . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 2006 ( online ). as an an example
personal data
SURNAME Arroyo Camejo, Silvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science author
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin